Word: familiar
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Those who had the privilege of studying with Copey will long remember him as one of the greatest in a justly famous and fast vanishing group of humanists. While remarkably familiar with every nook and cranny of English literature. Copey was not--nor would he claim to be--a scholar in the strictest sense. But there is something in the fact that yearly the Harvard Club invites Copey to New York to give a Christmas reading; there is something in Copey's annual intimidation of a thousand freshmen--in the position Copey carved out for himself over a long span...
...report was published yesterday to the effect that a graduate of the University is willing to give $300,000 for a new bridge to Soldiers Field. The need for a new bridge requires no comment, for we are all familiar with the unsightly patch-work structure which now leads to the Stadium. Everyone connected with the University would be more than pleased to see this report definitely confirmed...
...Hill never breaks any records. This is not because she is less able than her associates but because she is a diver, judged on points instead of time. Bright, blonde, vivacious, she is married to a Hollywood salesman, hyphenates her name in swimming meet programs. Her face is less familiar to the public than those of her friends because she is usually photographed in midair. Last week, "Minnow" Rawls's absence from the low-board dive practically assured Mrs. Hill of the title, which she promptly...
Sudden as it was, the death of Publisher Ochs was not unexpected. For more than a year his own New York Times had his obituary in type, in 16 black-bordered columns. It told the familiar story of the poor boy, born in Cincinnati to cultured German parents who took him to Knoxville, Tenn. where, at eleven, he began delivering papers; how he became printer's devil and learned the pressman's trade. It recalled his dogged determination and the editorial shrewdness by which he made the Chattanooga Times a thriving. potent newspaper. Then came...
...scenes. It opens in the dingy bridal suite of a Philadelphia hotel in February 1861, with Lincoln, the President-elect, listening to Detective Pinkerton's warnings of the plot to assassinate him as he passes through Baltimore next day. The outlines of Author Pratt's story are familiar to every schoolboy, but he vitalizes it with many a contemporary detail. While the war was still only imminent, many a Northern businessman tried to collect his Southern debts. One of them got this reply: "I promise to pay, five minutes after demand, to any northern Abolitionist, the same coin...